My regular trip to Birmingham this weekend – an opportunity to get my hair cut and visit my Mom.  (I know, there must be a hairdresser closer but I am a creature of habit and I know what I like!)

I always enjoy a trip into Birmingham’s city centre when I visit but this time I didn’t stay around the town.  Instead, I headed to Bewdley and made a call on my brother and we had a very nice lunch and catch-up by the river before I continued the journey home to Dorset.

In fact it had been quite an unexpected family visit as nephew and family were visiting from Canada so I not only got to briefly catch up with my other brother and his wife, my nephew and his wife but also meet my grand-niece for the first time and my grand-nephew for only the third.

That’s made me think about family contacts.  I have quite a separate life from most of my family but I do want to maintain ties, and so #MyTime, when I have some to spare, will definitely include reaching out to family members to say hello.  In this technological age, that doesn’t need to be racking up the road or air miles but I do still have one grand-niece I haven’t yet met.